Hinge for window-sashes, &amp;c.



No. 893,594. PATENTED JULY 14, 1908.

M. RODNEY. HINGE FOR WINDOW SASHES, 6w.

APPLICATION FILED NOV.12, 1907.

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PATENTED JULY 14, 1908.1

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MATHEW RODNEY, or IOWA FALLS, IOWA.

HINGE FOR WINDOW-SASHES, 850.

T 0 all whom it may concern: 4

Be it known that I, MATHEW RODNEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Iowa Falls, in the county of Hardin and State of Iowa, have invented a new and useful Hinge for WVindow-Sashes, &c., of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to provide a hinge specially adapted for adj ustably and detachably connecting a sash, screen or storm door with a frame to swing vertically or horizontally.

My invention consists in hinge members constructed and applied as hereinafter set forth, pointed out in my claims and illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of a window frame and shows a window sash pivotally, adjustably and detachably connected at its top with the frame as required to swing vertically for practical use in summer or winter. F 2 is a vertical sectional view of the window frame and the sash and shows an adjusting and locking device connected therewith. Dotted lines indicate the sash fastener for which a patent was granted to me May 17, 1904, N0.'760,350. Fig. 3 shows a small sash adjustably and detachably hinged to the lower portion of a window frame with my separable hinge members as required to swing horizontally and to be removed without detaching the hinge members from the frame or sash. Fig. 4 shows a front face and Fig. 5 an edge view of the hinge member adapted to be fixed to the top of a window frame as shown in Fig. 8. that are in right angled position relative to each other. Fig. 6 shows a face view of the engaging hinge member and Fig. 7 an edge view thereof.

The hinge member illustrated by Figs. 4 and 5, consists of a bracket composed of a flat plate (L provided with screw holes and has integral hook-shaped outward projections (Z that extend upward and downward in reverse ways as shown. The upper hook extends outward farther than the lower one to facilitate the journal 0 of a mating member to enter between the ends of the hooks by engaging the ournal 0 shown in Figs. 6 and 7 when a sash that carries the mating member is placed against the lower hook (Z and pushed Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed November 12, 1907.

It has bearings Patented July 14, 1908.

Serial No. 402,208.

upward. The other consists of a plate 1) provided with screw holes and is thicker at its top than at its bottom and has flat sides inclined and tapering from top to bottom, as shown in Figs. 6 and 7, as required to be reversible so that its integral ournal 0 can extend to the right or left when it is fixed to a sash as required to pivotally connect the sash with brackets fixed to a frame as shown in Figs. 1 and 3. It is obvious the same form of bracket is adapted to be fixed to the right or left fiat sides of a frame.

The hooks d of the plates (1. fixed to a frame have coinciding apertures that serve as journal bearings, as shown in Fig. 4, that specially adapt a sash to be hinged to a frame, as shown in Fig. 3, by means of the hinge members composed of tapering plates 1) that are thickest at their upper ends and flat sided and have journals 0 extending at right angles as shown in Fig. 6. By making the plate b tapering and thickest at its top and extending the journal 0 from the center of the side edge the ournal is adapted to enter the aperture (1 in the hook-shaped projections d on the plate c.

Having thus set forth the purposes of my invention and its construction, application and manner of use the practical operation and utility thereof will be obvious.

What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters-Patent, is:

1. A hinge member bracket consisting of a flat plate provided with screw holes, integral hook-shaped rojections extending forward from said ate and apertures extended through said projections in alinement with each other to admit the journal of a second hinge member as set forth, for the purposes stated.

2. A hinge comprising a fiat plate provided with screw holes, integral hook-shaped projections extending forward from said plate and apertures extended through said projections in alinement with each other to admit the ournal of a second member and a reversible member having a journal extend.- ing at right angles from the edge of its upper end portion.

MATHEW RODNEY. Witnesses:

A. I. GANFIELD, C. A. BRYsoN. 

